History

Research activities in the centre attracted substantial funding from the Ministry of Education and the National Science and Technology Board (S$3.29 million from 1996 to 2001) that inturns enhance the research capabilities of the centre. This leads to recent funding from the Defence Science and Technology Agency. The centre also actively supports the educational goals of the University through the supervision of final year undergraduates, postgraduate research students as well as overseas students on internship.